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by **noctorro** » Tue May 22, 2012 1:30 am

Great news they'll be in the game.

Even if they are generic clones, they'll probably still have annoying oneliners to bug the hell out of a player. Like the cloakers in WFC.

I think a toy version would be way to soon. I needz a WFC Arcee first, please Hasbro.

Habsro pls

by **Screamfleet** » Tue May 22, 2012 3:16 am

nice looking, hope to beat the crap out of this guy in the game

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Tue May 22, 2012 7:38 am

He looks proper hench and hard as diamond. An absolute destroyer. It'd be hilarious if in the game he was no taller than Rumble or Frenzy.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue May 22, 2012 7:42 am

First Kickback, then Chop Shop*, and now Hardshell. That makes three named members Aligned Insecticons thus far. They're starting to feel less like a swarm and more like an army. Cool.

* - Chop Shop was seen and named in an exclusive gameplay demonstration shown at the High Moon Studios booth at BotCon 2012.

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Tue May 22, 2012 7:53 am

Skyfire77 wrote:
Megatron Wolf wrote:so why cant they call him bombshell in the game?

Hasbro lost the trademark to "Bombshell" and "Shrapnel" prior to 2008. The TRU Universe rerelease renamed them Hardshell and Sharpshot respectively.

I'm actually a much bigger fan of their E-Hobby clone army counterparts and their names. Salvo, Zaptrap and the all-time greatest TF name ever...SHOTHOLE!

by **SJ21** » Tue May 22, 2012 8:14 am

There's 2/3. I certainly hope we will get a Shrapnel to go along with Bombshell and Kickback.

C'mon Hasbro, please make this into a toy (and Shrapnel too).

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue May 22, 2012 10:10 am

Delicon wrote:
Skyfire77 wrote:
Megatron Wolf wrote:so why cant they call him bombshell in the game?

Hasbro lost the trademark to "Bombshell" and "Shrapnel" prior to 2008. The TRU Universe rerelease renamed them Hardshell and Sharpshot respectively.

I'm actually a much bigger fan of their E-Hobby clone army counterparts and their names. Salvo, Zaptrap and the all-time greatest TF name ever...SHOTHOLE!

A more likely reason is to be more PC with their names. Names like Bombshell and Shrapnel recall the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq with all the bombings.

by **Screamfleet** » Tue May 22, 2012 4:23 pm

There is a DC villain called Shrapnel. It might also fall into an issue of avoiding calling it "Decepticon Shrapnel". The Robot Heroes sharpnel was just called insecticon. I think Sharpshot was an odd choice, but I pretty much just call them all insecticons anyway.